Context (Related Documents)
Card 1 (handwritten): 'DARI. Feather head-dress worn in dances Kab.'
Card 2 (transcribed, 1986):'Woven coconut fibre bands on cane frame ochred red, white & blue. In centre stylized human face with attached wood nose. One matchbox bean attached at top of head. Cassowary plumes bound round outer rim, with (frigate bird?) feathers projecting.'
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Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Dari. Feathered headdress worn in dances. Made of woven coconut fibre bands on cane frame, ochred red, white & laundry blue. In centre a stylized a human face with attached wood nose. One matchbox bean attached at top of head. Cassowary plumes bound round outer rim, with (frigate bird?) feathers projecting.'
Event Date
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu

Context (Amendments / updates)
Red round sticker on the handwritten catalogue card. Date unknown.
Event Date
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu

Context (Amendments / updates)
Pencil annotation 'Long Drawer F' on the handwritten catalogue card. Presumably an old museum display location. Date unknown.
Event Date
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu

Context (Amendments / updates)
Pencil annotation 'A 401' on the back of the handwritten catalogue card.
Event Date
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu

Loan (Exhibition)
Exhibition: 'Awakening: Stories from the Torres Strait' June 25 2011 - December 31 2011
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Collected by Dr Alfred Cort Haddon in 1898.
Event Date 1898
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu

Context (Related Documents)
Transcribed catalogue card reads 'References: TSR 4: 37, 38, 364, 365. pl.VI. pl. VIII, figs 1-4.'
Event Date 4/11/1986
Author: maa

Context (Display)
Exhibited in 'Torres Strait Islanders: An Exhibition Marking the Centenary of the 1898 Cambridge Anthropological Exhibition' at UCMAA, July 1998 to December 2000.
Event Date 7/1998
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu

Context (Display)
Exhibited in 'Past Time: Torres Strait Islander Material from the Haddon Collection, 1888-1905' at the National Museum of Australia, Canberra, March 2001-May 2002 and at the Cairns Regional Gallery, June to September 2002.
Event Date 3/2001
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu

Loan (Exhibition)
National Museum of Australia, 1/3/2001 to 1/9/2002, Past Time: Torres Strait Islander Material from the Haddon Collection, 1888-1905: A National Museum of Australia Exhibition from the University of Cambridge.
Event Date 1/3/2001
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu

Context (Display)
Exhibited: 'Awakening: Stories from the Torres Strait' at Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Australia, 25 June 2011- 2 October 2011.
Event Date 25/6/2011
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu